200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

Artifacts showcasing the witchy history of Zambia.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

At one South African whaling station, this industrial extermination led to a feeding frenzy that may have even been a key inspiration for Jaws.

A supply store for traditional healers, this shop sells the hair of a dog--and its skin, skeleton, and reproductive organs, too.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.